Lebanon City Councilman Tony Matula said he plans to resign from office after being charged on Monday with falsifying an accident report by the Office of the Lebanon County District Attorney.

Bogus insurance. Fraudulent registrations. Stolen cars disguised and resold to unsuspecting customers. Those were some of the tactics prosecutors say were used by dozens of people and three corporations in what they described as an auto-theft and insurance-fraud ring that operated in Philadelphia for years.

Fraudulent insurance claims were the center of a scheme implemented by an NYPD officer. He was caught after having burned a Range Rover in addition to two of his other vehicles.

A dozen people were arrested Monday in Miami-Dade County for their roles in medical fraud schemes, authorities said.

Two men jailed in Houston and accused of using pirated computer software to steal more than 100 vehicles may have exploited an electronic vulnerability to advance auto theft into high-tech crime.

A fire that spread through a parking lot near a large festival in Portugal’s central interior yesterday completely destroyed 422 vehicles and damaged a further nine.

Two south-central Kentucky farmers have pleaded guilty to crop insurance fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office says 53-year-old David Manion and 48-year-old Henry Manion of Allen County admitted making false statements and reports on applications for insurance.

A Long Island engineering company and one of its former executives were charged on Monday in a scheme to minimize insurance payments to homeowners whose residences were damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Almonds, pistachios and other high-value nuts are an appealing commodity for not only health nuts, but also more recently to highly sophisticated criminal organizations in the San Joaquin valley.

Louisiana State Police on Tuesday arrested seven of eight people suspected in an insurance fraud ring in Jeff Davis Parish.

The certainty of death and taxes is equaled only perhaps by the use of banking and financial records for insurance investigations. How we view those records is changing in this new millennium.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a Far Rockaway restaurant owner was arrested this morning for allegedly lying about her injuries and employment status in order to wrongfully receive more than $69,000 in disability and workers’ compensation insurance payments.

The woman killed in an explosion Monday at a Benson-area home was a property inspector who had gone there to check its condition after the evicted tenant had cleared out.

Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS) today announced the recent arrest of Miami attorney, Anett Lopez, 42, for her involvement in a personal injury protection (PIP) fraud scheme that accounted for nearly $1.5 million in financial loss.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Michael Danilovich was sentenced today to 25 years in prison in connection with his conviction for 16 counts of racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, health care fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering charges following a five-week jury trial.